The question “Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life?” anchors this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas — tells about: Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life? — “Apple Consumption is Related to Better Sexual Quality […]
Tag: chocolate
Certain people would really like you to really like certain chocolate milk
Some people are working to persuade you to really like some chocolate milk — a particular brand of chocolate milk. Some other people — many of them doctors and scientists and journalists who write about medicine and science — are working to make you think about whether you should or should not like that particular brand of […]
Flake™ fragmentation fix (new patent)
Partial to a Cadbury(‘s) Flake? Had trouble with crumbs? You are not alone. The ‘fragmentation’ issue – present since the launch of the Flake™ in 1920 – is described by Cadbury UK Ltd. : “[…] existing bars of convoluted chocolate sheet can be difficult to eat as a result of the crumbly texture. It is […]
“Designing and Testing an Improved Packaging for Large Hollow Chocolate Bunnies”
Improbable Research podcast #1 savors a peer-reviewed study about improved packaging for large hollow chocolate bunnies. The study is: ‘Designing and Testing an Improved Packaging for Large Hollow Chocolate Bunnies,’ Gerald W. Greenway and Raul Enrique Garcia, TAPPI Journal, 80 (8), 1977, pp. 133-139 . The authors were at The Package Sealing Laboratory, at the School of Engineering, at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Here’s a […]